Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

3-2025

Abstract

Over the past half-century, Holland’s RIASEC model has dominated vocational interest research. Although the RIASEC categories effectively capture general occupational themes, their breadth obscures meaningful variability across underlying basic interests, which are more refined interest scales. In this research, we adapted the Comprehensive Assessment of Basic Interests (CABIN; Su et ., 2019) to be used alongside O*NET for assessing interest fit, resulting in the 60-item CABIN-NET that measures 20 basic interest scales organized under RIASEC domains. In Study 1, we refined items for the CABIN-NET using a nationally representative adult sample (N = 768). In Studies 2 and 3, we collected extensive reliability and validity evidence using longitudinal samples of graduates from four-year universities (N = 816) and community colleges (N = 560). Across samples, results consistently showed that basic interest fit had stronger predictive power for career outcomes compared to RIASEC fit. Overall, the CABIN-NET provides a short, reliable measure of both basic interests and RIASEC interests, offering two ways of assessing person-occupation fit and balancing bandwidth and fidelity. The CABIN-NET also offers a new content-based connection between basic interests and occupational knowledge, providing theoretical and practical implications for incorporating basic interests into person-environment fit research and applications.

Keywords

vocational interests, basic interests, job knowledge, person-environment fit, O*NET

Discipline

Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Journal of Career Assessment

First Page

1

Last Page

25

ISSN

1069-0727

Identifier

10.1177/10690727251322520

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/10690727251322520

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